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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Let’s face
it, like it or not many of us use Facebook on a daily basis. But Facebook has
some very annoying things about it and until recently I was putting up with the
non-sense. Then I found a comment on the
Facebook community page of a user telling everyone about Facebook Purity. The problem
was they could not share the link, Facebook was blocking it!!! No surprise because this program is awesome. And it’s Free.

Purity has
several pages of settings. You can tweak
your Facebook as you like. Some of the
best features are being able to disable Suggested Posts which is nothing more
than advertising. Games people are
playing, I don’t care about that non-sense and with Purity you will never see
that again. You can finally disable
those auto-play videos.

Purity has a
feature to filter content on keywords that you define. So if you are fed up with your friends
complaining about Donald Trump for example you can filter those posts from your
timeline. Maybe you don’t want to see
spoilers for your favorite TV shows, now you can do it.

Here’s another
good one you can filter on image content likes cats, selfies, dogs or food. On a diet, I would filter the food
photos.

Do you want
to know when a friend removes you from their list? Now you can with Purity. You can hide all photos or videos if you
wish. You can hide the chat bar if you
don’t use it. The list goes on and on.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

I have been a user of Adblock Plus (ABP) for many years. But lately many web sites I visit can detect this technology and block viewing their web site until you disable ABP. Android Central is one example. Their web site is riddled with ads and it is necessary to use an ad blocker to control all the popups and an animated ads they run. I understand these sites need revenue to continue providing content, but some go too far and don't properly vet the ads they present on their web pages. It's their own fault that ad blocking technology is needed.

I recently tried an app called Adguard Adblocker and this app is invisible to these same web sites allowing me to view their web pages with no ads. It also uses less memory and seems a tad faster than ABP. They make a Chrome app for free that works really well.

About Me

I like to fly RC sailplanes and planes. I also enjoy digital photography and Photoshop. I also enjoy my home theater system and love tinkering with XBMC.

I am a retired computer programmer/Unix Admin. I also wrote some shareware games in the 80's including Clone Invaders and Disk Crash. I also designed and programmed a very popular property management system in the 90's called ImagInn.